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Creator name formatting #218

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mattgarrish opened this issue Jul 3, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #243
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Creator name formatting #218

mattgarrish opened this issue Jul 3, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #243
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Topic - metadata Issue with the package document metadata

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@mattgarrish
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I noticed that the dc:creator examples have the last name first followed by a comma. For example:

<dc:creator id="aut01">
   Brontë, Charlotte
</dc:creator>

<dc:creator id="aut02">
   Melville, Herman
</dc:creator>

If a reading system merges these using commas in the bookshelf, however, the user would likely be presented with:

Brontë, Charlotte, Melville, Herman

This could get confusing to read. Is it necessary to format the names this way, or can we use the file-as property to provide sorting information? For example:

<dc:creator id="aut01">
   Charlotte Brontë
</dc:creator>
<meta property="file-as" refines="#aut01">Brontë, Charlotte</meta>
@mattgarrish mattgarrish added the Topic - metadata Issue with the package document metadata label Jul 3, 2024
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@mattgarrish Using the file-as property makes sense to me. Thanks for pointing out this issue.

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